Russell Springs, KS 67764 Frost Dates
67764, near Russell Springs, KS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/30, about 245 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/14, roughly 164 days after the last spring frost.
Russell Springs sits in USDA Zone 6a (-10 to -5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Russell Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 7 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/30 isn't a guarantee
04/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Russell Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 164 days separate Russell Springs's last and first frost, putting it 31,269 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within KS, it ranks 713 of 745.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 67764: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 6a and Russell Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Russell Springs's dates instead of trusting one.